Form-fitting waist-lining.



PATENTBD MAR. 24, 1908,

H. 1- BABE: FORM FITTING WAIST LINING.

APPLIOL!IOI FILED JULY 2, 1907.

HERMINE J. BAER, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

FORM-FITTING WAIST-LINING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented We. 24, ions.

Application filed July 2, 1907. Serial No. 381,907.

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, HERMINE J. BARR, resident of the city and county of San Francisco and State of Galifornia, have invented new and useful Improvements in For1nFitting Waist-Lining, of which the following is a specification. I

'lhis invention has for its object to provide for the use of the dress-maker an improved form-fitting Waistdining, having several novel features that give it advantages over those means or methods heretofore employed in the dress-making art.

Among other advantages it reduces the labor of cutting out and sewing, in the feature of having a less number of seznns; it enablesa waist to be fitted and a perfect lit secured at one operatirm of fitting to the person, and in much less time than is found practicable when cutting out, basting and fitting according to the methods heretofore practiced in the art; it gives a person of ordinary experience in cutting and sewing garments the advantage of obtaining a perfect lit under different conditions or styles of form or ligure, equally as well as is obtained only after several operations of fitting the waist by the experienced .lress-1neker, and that without calling for special skill or train- 1ng.

These and other objects and advantages 1 attain and secure in and by the construction described and set forth in the following specification The accompanying drawing illustrates a pattern for a waist-lining of my invention, Figure 1 being a pattern for cutting out onehalf of the lining, and. including in one piece the front, side and back of one-half of the lining; and Fig. 2 being a pattern for that part of the waist-lining which 1 have termed. the corselet. Fig. 3 is a View, on it smaller scale, of the wrist-lining arranged to open at the hack, and closed at the front, and after the corselet has heen attached ready for the operation of fitting the lining to the wearer.

The complete Wltlstdiilillg of 11W in enlion is formed or composed of the right and left halves ae which are cut to shape on the lines of the pattern Fig. 1, and the bend or strip 1', which l term the corselet, T he two parts cu are united by sewing the j back-edges c together, and the shoulders ere joined in the usual way by bringing the two edges d--(Z together; .finally the corselet is attached to the heck nt a point midway of the ends. The usual Whale bones or stiffenng moons are attached in place, and the lin- 111g is ready for the operations of fitting and finishing. I p i in the pattern Fig. 1 it Will be seen that the front 2, the side 3 and the hook at are integral; thereby calling for but three main seams, namely the two shmilder-seanrs d-d, and the longitudinal seam by which the two halves are united. In addition to these three seams, however, there are provided two secondary seams on the front of each half of the lining. These two seams 5--5 and 6--6 circumscrihe two dertse, f, which an so pieced that the first-mentioned one provides for taking up more or less of the lining fabric circuniferentially the Welsh line, on each side, and the remaining one provides for taking up the fabric longitudi nally at the front. i i

In addition to the perpendicular dert e that extends from the lower edge 5/ upwards, the lining is slitted at two points over the hips, as illustrated in l of which the slit 7 in the bottom-edge is located about in line with the lower edge of the armhole, and the other one 8 a short distance in front of the slit 7. These slits usually extend in the pet-- tern from the bottom edge upward to the normal waist-line indicated by the dotted line ll), but they ere continued or extended above that line a greater or less distance as may he found necessary to shorten the waist.

'lhc corselet l) which is attnchei'l to the lining at the oacl; after the two halves (r -05 are united, first drawn around the waist f the person being fitted end teinporerily lestened in place at the ends, after which the lining is taken in the z-e, endotherwise drawn in or let out at the slits 7 8 liy folding in the tabs 12, 13, 14,01 by prolonging the slits, and the parts are temporarily fastened to the corselet es the fitting pro coeds. At the end of that operation the fitted lining is removed, the corse etis permanent lines of stit ngot and along th 10, from back; to front. This con the manner of combining and joining it with the waist lining is on important fealture of the invention; dis it is pieced on the inside the lining covering the seems at the waist line, it also takes the place of a facing. its chief function or purpose, however, is to hold the folds and parts of the linin in the required positions or relations to fit the form lie during the operation of fitting the lining, and slteiwvanls to so retain the same in shape by being made a permanent part of the lining.

The same pattern is adapted for a Waist to be opened at the back, simply by uniting the two halves 4L--u at the longitudinal i'ront seam h, and placing the hooks and eyes or other fastening means on the back edges 0.

A low neck or decolette Waist is readily produced from the same pattern by cutting the front .2 on the dotted line 15, and the back 4, on the similar line 16, which are providcd in the pattern Fig. 1 for that purpose. This pattern can be printed or stampedon tired .bric and furnished in quantities of differ standard sizes, ready to be cut out and (J-i But i L in selecting the proper size of pattern, the dress-maker is guided only by the bust measure 0l":- the person to be fit; as the peculiar features of the pattern render it practicable to secure a perfect fit to the form in all degrees of stoutness, spareness or other characteristics.

1". The herein described form-fitting waistlining comprising the separate halves, each having the front, side and back integral, the

mi ssaasa two halves and parts being united by the and a back out from a single piece of fabric,

and having the perpendicular dart in the front, the transverse dart on the breast-portion and slits along the bottom edge in co1nbination with the corselet.

l. The herein described form-fitting waist lining comprising separate halves, each having tnc front, side and back out from a single piece of fabric, the said halves being united along their longitudinal edges, in combination with the corselet, substantially as set forth.

HERMINE J. BAER.

Witnesses EDWARD it. OsnonN, L. M. FRANK. 

